Today’s Poem of the Day, “Sea Fever” by John Masefield (1878–1967), has long been a staple of children’s anthologies. It’s the quintessence of the traditional “boy’s poem,” with its call to a life ...

Here he turns to the sea, in one of the most iconic of English poems. Ironically, the future poet laureate had embarked on a career as a merchant seaman in his teens, but jumped ship in New York ...

In these poems, the sea carries history – or, perhaps more accurately, carries us through our various histories, where memory mixes with desire. Intimating the death of a father and a deep struggle to ...

My love for you is deeper than the sea That no one but me can find and see. You’re still what you have always been, Loving, caring, and with a modest grin. . Does the world not know who you are?

A poem by Graham Mort.The sea you said no one can do anything about that. There it was lapping at staithes and jetties at iron stanchions stacked lobster pots that offer a mazed way in but not out. No ...

His selected poems, Being Here, was published in 2010. His contribution to Whatever the Sea is a short elegy for memory, but contains the memorable and simple refrain: "I don’t know what I used ...

Poem of the Day: ‘The Sea-Marke’ We know Captain John Smith as one of the soldiers-at-large, privateers, and explorers in the Tudor and Stuart eras. But like so many of his kind, he also wrote poetry.